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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restoring files
From: |
Mal Beaton |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restoring files |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:58:46 +1000 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
Alec Berryman wrote:
> begin quotation of Mal Beaton on 2004-10-11 13:53:36 +1000:
>
>
>> backup works ok
>>
>> backups$ rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 5D home/mjb
>> works fine
>>
>> restore from backups on backups
>>
>> backups$ rdiff-backup -r 1D rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide
rdiffdir/home/mjb/newaide
>>
>> works fine and the file newaide is the version from one day ago
>> however
>> on server1
>>
>> server1$ rdiff-backup -r 1D backups::/rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide
/home/mjb/newaide fails
>
>
>
> Do you usually do backups over ssh? Was the successful restore from a
> local copy of the archive, an NFS mount, or something else?
Yes to ssh. Local restor successful. the test to the backups server via
ssh is succesful as shown below. doing a local restore on the backups
server is successful
>
>
>> rdiff-backup --test-server backups::/rdiffdir
Testing server started by: ssh -C backups rdiff-backup --server
>> Server OK
>>
>> error from the restore
>
>
>
> <snip>
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>
>>
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py",
line 230, in _get
>> rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string
(problem probably originated remotely)
>
>
>
> Are you using the same version locally and remotely?
yes both servers are using
rdiff-backup 0.13.4
from debian/backports
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